Monday, September 16, 2002

Boxes and Arrows: Building the Beast: Talking with Peter Morville. Our biggest area of learning was bottom-up information architecture. The first edition was grounded in the type of top-down processes that come with building a new site from scratch. In the second edition, we were able to draw upon an understanding of how to redesign sites that already contain huge amounts of content and applications. [Tomalak's Realm] 2:24:37 PM    comment []

Slashdot | Enigmail Standard In Mandrake 9.0. AxelTorvalds writes "The Mozilla 1.1 RPMs in Mandrake 9.0 contain the enigmail plugin. It seemlessly encrypts, signs, decrypts and authenticate email with GPG or PGP in the Mozilla Mail client. This is the first major distributor I know of to support enigmail. With this and Evolution and Kmail both supporting GPG and PGP are we at the dawn of that golden age when encrypted email will be commonplace?" --- Update: 09/15 17:26 GMT by T: Borked link fixed. [Privacy Digest] 2:23:23 PM    comment []

Slashdot | Your Rights Online - 60,000 Credit Cards Numbers Stolen Online. robl writes "140,000 credit card numbers were tested for validity yielding about 62,000 valid credit card numbers and $300,000 of fraudulent charges. A good quote: --- "There wasn't a system in place to say, 'you've generated 140,000 charges, that's more than your normal volume.'" --- As Schneier-heads would say, it's a brittle system -- when the security fails, it fails badly." [Privacy Digest] 1:12:49 PM    comment []

I use this on occasion, so I'll have to be a bit more careful in the future... Mozilla Bug Leaks Web Surfing Data : Netscape and other Web browsers based on the Mozilla development project contain a bug that leaks users' Web surfing data, according to a new report. (CNET News.com via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu] 1:10:03 PM    comment []